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Study: Newspaper Websites Are Still Figuring Out This Whole Conversation Thing

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Newspapers are still lurching their way around the Web, a new study finds, but at least they are making some progress. The Bivings Group released a study today that quantifies … Continue reading

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Washington Post CEO Joins Facebook’s Board

Via Mashable December 11, 2008 – 12:23 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Everyone knows that newspapers are in a state of decline, in large part due to the rise of online media. So, you would think that perhaps you’d … Continue reading

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Pulitzer Prize Makes Nice With The Web As Print Media Stumbles

Via Tech Crunch by Jason Kincaid on December 8, 2008 The Pulitzer Prize Board, the governing body behind American journalism’s highest honor, has announced that online-only newspapers will now be eligible for the Prize. The announcement comes as many traditional … Continue reading

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Newspaper Death Spiral Continues; Industry Advertising Contracts $5 Billion So Far This Year

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on November 27, 2008 The newspaper industry in the U.S. continues to shrink at an alarming rate. According to the Newspaper Association of America,, total industry advertising (both print and online) in the third … Continue reading

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Becoming Screen Literate

Via the New York Times By KEVIN KELLY Published: November 21, 2008 Everywhere we look, we see screens. The other day I watched clips from a movie as I pumped gas into my car. The other night I saw a … Continue reading

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College Media Has Come A Long Way Online

Via Media Shift by Bryan Murley, November 19, 2008 With the swift pace of change in the media landscape, it’s easy to overlook how far college news media has come in a short time. There has been some great innovation … Continue reading

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Pulp Magazines Struggle to Survive in Wired World

Via Media Shift by Simon Owens, November 17, 2008 Every year Locus Magazine, “The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field,” publishes a year-in-review of the genre. This summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining … Continue reading

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The Death of Tangible Media is a Little Murky

Via Mashable November 15, 2008 – 5:38 pm PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 8 Comments You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the … Continue reading

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Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business?

Via Media Shift by Mark Glaser, November 13, 2008 Bands do it. Filmmakers do it. President-elect Barack Obama made an artform out of it. “It” is crowdfunding, getting micro-donations through the Internet to help fund a venture. The question is … Continue reading

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Old Media Deathrace: Newspapers Nose Ahead

Via Mashable October 24, 2008 – 8:59 pm PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 9 Comments The Grey Lady, as it’s called, might possibly be in the winter of its lifetime. `According to Henry Blodget’s calculations, the New York Times … Continue reading

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